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EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
8,000: The number of Irish drivers who were overcharged by insurance company 123.ie.
3: The number of votes that have now been held to elect a Taoiseach.
117: The number of prostitutes found on Friday in a raid on a brothel in Berlin linked to the Hells Angels.
191: The number of litres of wine that were seized in a raid in Cavan on Thursday.
€243,000: The amount it could cost for a single modular home designed to combat the housing crisis, according to RTÉ. Environment Minister Alan Kelly said this week that the over-budget homes “by no means went to plan”.
14: The number of months a man was left on crutches for following an unprovoked beating outside of a takeaway in Dublin.
20%: The percentage rise in instances of alleged abuse of the elderly at care homes, according to a Hiqa report.
16: The age of a schoolgirl who helped to save a binman outside of her house last month.
3: The number of sun destinations Ryanair announced it will be flying out to from Cork Airport.
1,450: The number of new personnel to be recruited by the Defence Forces.
€44 million: The amount of money Euromillions winner Dolores McNamara has bid for a Limerick retail park.
62: The age of celebrity David Gest, who died this week.
20: The number of basking sharks that were spotted off the coast of Clare.
149: The number of questions contained in a new RTÉ run survey aimed at 18 to 34 year olds.
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why the hell do we need more soldiers, we need more gaurds, nurses and to a lesser extent luas drivers
Was wondering that myself?
We need more and actual gardai.
The Irish media are afraid of criticising the garda management.
I propse that 100 soldiers are trained to become gardai, put them on O’Connell Street, they’ll have cleaned up Dublin in an hour.
Dublin City Council and Dublin Corporation have been cleaning up Dublin since 1840.
So why call for peace if the Government wants to hire armed men and women.
Soul – diers are hired to fight others. Is this what we the people want?
Do you even give a damn about Liberty? You are a sheep. Deploying soldiers to the streets of Dublin would make all the men who died for this country roll in their grave. Your ignorance disgusts me.
It would answer them better to, restore the pay and conditions of the ones they have already.
What a complete waste of tax payers money going to the “defense forces” . All they seem to do is send a very small percentage to a peacekeeping country. What the hell do the rest of them do?? Thousands.. One solider told me that they go on war games in the curragh etc, so more or less playing solider games. As if they could protect if anything happened. A complete waste when you think of the crime, Garda station closures and general non stop criminal under world flourishing in this country. The army is paid to transfer money to banks, the state pays to cut the lawns at the army barracks around the country as its not in their job description!!! What a joke,early pensions and offer nothing to the Irish public. They should be transferred to the Gardai ASAP and help to clean up this country of crime. They offer nothing to Irish society as it is, a complete waste of hard earned tax payers money that could be used elsewhere to offer backup to the Gardai. Wake up for fcuksake. Put these in Garda uniform and put them on the streets around the country
Like the way they have soldiers in police uniforms in the United States?
Spot on Splint Pint.
For the love of god do not upset the defence forces! I posted a comment on FB and they blocked me. It seems our Army can not take criticism, hope they do well in battle! Oh wait!!
Sooo.. You’d prefer to live in a country that’s at war and whose defence force is killing and being killed in “battles” instead of involved in peacekeeping missions/aid to civil power. You’re sickened you can’t vote for Trump aren’t you!
Waste of more Money …Jobs for the Army boys
too many
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